Quotes by Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser

British author of history, novels, biographies and detective

Lived from: 1932 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 27 august 1932

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  • After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
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  • As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
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  • I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
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  • I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
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  • I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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  • I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
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  • I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
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  • I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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  • I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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  • I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
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  • I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
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  • I'm glad I was never an heiress.
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  • I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.
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  • If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
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  • It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
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  • King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
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  • Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
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  • Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.
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  • My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
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  • My mother was a politician in my formative years.
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What are the most famous quotes from Antonia Fraser?

The two most famous quotes from Antonia Fraser are:

  • "After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
  • "As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism."

When did Antonia Fraser live?

Antonia Fraser is still alive and was born in 1932.